A judge's scathing ruling Wednesday moves New York City's troubled Rikers Island jail complex a step closer to a federal ...

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers filed a legal claim Tuesday against New York City, alleging the disgraced Hollywood mogul is ...

Harvey Weinstein's lawyers filed a legal claim alleging that he is receiving substandard medical treatment in unhygienic ...

The finding was a landmark in a court case that has stretched out over more than a decade. Plans for a receivership of New ...

A federal judge ruled that New York City was in violation of 18 different provisions of a court-enforced plan to clean up the ...

The judge found that conditions have only continued to worsen at the jail complex, setting up a potential federal takeover.

Weinstein’s attorney alleges that the disgraced film producer’s medical treatment at Rikers Island “amounts to cruel and unusual punishment” and that the facility is like “a gulag where the prisoners ...

A federal judge held New York City’s Department of Correction in contempt for failing to institute reforms at Rikers Island ...

A federal judge said that she was leaning toward taking the extreme measure of stripping the city of its control of Rikers ...

The scathing ruling over jail conditions puts the troubled Rikers Island jail complex on the verge of a federal takeover.

New York City was found in contempt Wednesday over “grave” conditions at Rikers Island — as a judge said she was “inclined” to order a federal takeover of the ...